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World News
- US and Lebanon protecting wanted Syrian general, BBC findsBassam al-Hassan, linked to reporter Austin Tice's abduction, is being sheltered in return for information.
- Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate, Israel says, as Miliband says 'vital services' to remainIsrael said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
- Texas carries out first US execution since Christa Pike's botched lethal injectionsLawyers for Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution after Christa Pike's botched lethal injections.
- Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests diesMaricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.
- Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- France's school protests: What lies behind the angerStudents' blockades and marches spring from real grievances – and from France's habit of settling policy on the street.
